A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Stationers, Society of

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STATIONERS, SOCIETY OF, Edinburgh, 1660-90. This press appears to fall into two periods: First period, 1660-71. Succeeding Higgins, q. v. This seems to be the Stationers' Company of London. Watson, p. 10, states that, "Tyler made over his part of the forfeited gift to some Stationers at London, who sent down upon us Christopher Higgins and some English servants with him … After he died, these London Stationers appoint Patrick Ramsay, q.v., a Scotsman to be overseer of that House … but the masters living at a distance, and the work coming to no account, they sold this printing house to several booksellers [probably Swintoun, Glen and Brown, q.v.] at Edinburgh, who, in a little time after did divide and set up distinct houses." Arber [Stationers' Registers, v. xlvii] says that the Company "held for some years a patent for printing in Scotland, granted by the Scotch Parliament. This Scotch Patent … appears to have been abandoned in 1669 upon the death of Christopher Higgins, the Company's agent at Edinburgh, and the stock and plant sold there for £300." [H. G. Aldis, List of Books, p. 121.]